Re: CDROM support (was: Re: TR: VFAT, NTFS, PE executable support)

[suzhe]

Hello,

I'm the author of SBM, could you please mail me all of your
patch? (Ofcourse if you don't mind:-)

And, I'll try to integrate our CD-ROM booting module into grub if I got
enough time.

Regards,
James Su

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Stefan Ondrejicka wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> [...]
> > But I found this other GPL-ed project (Smart Boot Manager or btmgr,
> > see <http://www.gnuchina.org/~suzhe>).  It too has support for booting
> > from CD, and low and behold it works on two out of three here:)
> > 
> > Helas, I've problems integrating it into GRUB myself and the author
> > is willing to do it iff he finds the time.
> > 
> > I thought that simply loading that code chain-booting would work,
> > but I get an error like "unknown exe format".  So what's the proper
> > way of chain-loading a program from /boot/grub and how to compile
> > and link such a pragram?
> 
> If you are interested, I have jus got it work few months ago. The
> attached patch is again grub-0.5.96. 
> 
> I have also disable few things in btmgr to get it working from file
> instead of from floppy or disk, also I have disabled showing of partitions
> in the bootmanager menu, so it shows now only whole disks, cdroms and
> floppies. And another thing which I had to disable was saving of config,
> because it overwrites it directly in the location where btmgr was
> installed and it want work when it is installed in file. And also there is
> few problems to install the btmgr to file, because the instalation program
> does only installation to disk or floppy. But when you will do install to
> floppy, you can grab few blocks from floppy with dd to file and it will
> work I think. I have used other tricks by modifying the install program.
> If you will be able to install it to file, tell me, and I will send you my
> btmgr file. The second attached patch is patch for btmgr-3.6-2 to disable
> things mentioned above.
> 
> Good luck with getting it working!
> 
> Best regards,
> Stevo.
> 
> -- 
> Stefan Ondrejicka <address@hidden>
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>